Luciano Belviso

Founder and CEO of Blackshape Aircraft

Luciano Belviso is a very young entrepreneur. In 2009, at the age of 25, he founded the company Blackshape Aircraft in, Monopoli, South Italy, with his friend Angelo Petrosillo. The early life of the company was initially granted by a regionally - funded program for youth entrepreneurship, offering 25.000 grants. One year later Blackshape became a stock company. Today Luciano and Angelo design, plan, build and sell small, fabulous, ultra-light aircrafts in carbon fiber. At this moment they have already sold 60 aircrafts in 24 countries.Blackshape, is not just an example of the new Made in Italy, it is also an example of how you can innovate and be successful in Italy.

In detail

Luciano was born in Bari in 1983, after secondary school he moved to Switzerland and France for his university education. Luciano holds an M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, a LL.M: in space and telecommunications law from the University of Paris XI and a B:Eng in aerospace engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin.

Their product is considered by some as the "Ferrari of the skies." "A Blackshape weighs about half of the competitors, it is faster and consumes far less fuel" said Luciano, who takes care of the design.

The goal now is to build the most environmentally friendly aircraft in the world. Luciano has a beautiful way of saying it: "To do things need to be done. Without waiting for anything or anyone".

Languages

He presents in Italian, English and French.

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